PDF to flipbook, a page-turning booklet in one file.

A PDF to flipbook converter turns a PDF into a booklet you read on screen by turning pages, like a magazine or a brochure. This one is free and runs in your browser. It draws each page of your PDF, saves the pages as pictures inside one HTML file, and adds a viewer with a page-turn animation, spreads, zoom, thumbnails and full screen. Nothing is uploaded, and you do not make an account. If you were looking for a booklet PDF online free, this gives you a booklet that opens in any browser, with no watermark and no page limit from us.

How to make a flipbook from a PDF

1. Drop your PDF on the box, or click it to choose the file. A password-protected PDF asks for its password first.
2. Wait a moment while the pages are drawn. The flipbook appears below as soon as it is ready, and it is the real file you will download.
3. Turn pages by clicking the left or right side of the book, dragging a page sideways, pressing the arrow keys, or using the arrows on the sides.
4. Under Settings, change the Title, the Pages to use, the Sharpness, the Picture format, the Quality and the Background. The preview and the size update after a short pause.
5. Press Download flipbook (HTML). Open the saved file in any browser, with or without a network.

How to share a flipbook

This page does not host your flipbook and does not give a link, because nothing leaves your computer. Sharing means one of two things:

• Send the file. Attach the HTML file to an email or a chat, or put it on a drive. The person opens it in their browser. It needs no internet connection and no account.
• Host it. Upload the HTML file to any web host that serves HTML files, and share that address. If you prefer separate files, press Download ZIP, unzip it and upload the folder. Pictures kept as files load one by one and can be cached.

Some chat and file services may refuse HTML files or show them as text. If that happens, send the ZIP, or host the file.

File size, and how to keep it small

The size of the flipbook is shown above the preview before you download. It is dominated by the page pictures, and pictures inside an HTML file are written as text, which makes them about a third bigger (4 bytes of text for every 3 bytes of picture). The ZIP keeps the pictures as they are, so it is usually the smaller of the two.

Gmail accepts attachments up to 25 MB in total for personal accounts (Google's help page, checked 26 Oct 2026), so the page warns when the HTML file is over 25 MB. To make it smaller, use these in this order:

1. Pick Pages to leave out pages you do not need, such as blank ones.
2. Lower Sharpness. Pages 1000 px wide are clear on a laptop. 1400 px suits zooming in.
3. Keep Picture format on WebP. At the same quality it makes smaller files than JPEG.
4. Lower Quality. Around 70 to 80 looks clean for most pages. Below 60 you may see smudges around small letters.

If the PDF itself is large because of big photos, compress the PDF first, or use split PDF to cut it into parts.

Worked example: pixels and spreads

Sharpness is the width of each page picture. A US Letter page is 8.5 by 11 inches, so its height is 11 divided by 8.5, or 1.294, times the width. At Standard (1000 px wide) a Letter page is 1000 by 1294 pixels, about 1.29 million pixels. At Very sharp (1800 px wide) it is 1800 by 2329, about 4.19 million pixels, which is 3.2 times as many, so expect a much bigger file.

Spreads follow the way a real book opens. With First page is a cover on, page 1 is alone on the right, then pages 2 and 3 face each other, then 4 and 5, and so on. A 10 page PDF has six views: 1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10 alone. With the cover off, it has five views: 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 and 9-10.

Moving around the flipbook

• Turn pages: click the left or right part of the book, drag a page sideways, or press the left and right arrow keys. Home and End jump to the first and last page.
• Go to a page: type its number in the box at the top, or open the thumbnails with the first button and click a page. The T key opens them too.
• Zoom: use the plus and minus buttons or the plus and minus keys. Double-click the book to zoom in and out, and drag it to look around when zoomed.
• Full screen: use the last button, or press F, where the browser allows it.
• Phones: on a narrow screen the flipbook shows one page at a time and you swipe to turn. You can force this for every screen with Always show one page at a time.

What a flipbook does not do

The pages are pictures, so the text on them cannot be selected, searched or read aloud, and links and form fields in the PDF do not work. Pages are drawn in one page size, taken from page 1, so a page with a very different shape is shown smaller with space around it. Keep the PDF as well if people need to copy text or fill in a form. To save single pages as pictures, use PDF to JPG. Printing a PDF as a folded booklet is a different job: the pages must be put in a different order so they fold into a book, which a flipbook you read on screen does not do.